Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An overwhelming majority of those who still baulked at actual sacking favoured return to uniform , with the view that ‘ CID officers who are lazy and incompetent were so primarily because of the absence of the eventual sanction of removal from specialist duty . ’ |
| 2 | But we had the situation where seventy per cent of not just fathers who were unemployed but fathers that were well off were not adequately and in some cases not supporting . |
| 3 | The trackers and beaters were already there and in a flurry of snow , shouts , cries and yelping barks , the hunters moved down to meet them . |
| 4 | Euturpia Kennedy turned untenanted eyes in a face laid waste ; even her lips , emptied of succulence , were hardly there but for the outlined ridge . |
| 5 | Whereas the Mondays were once upfront and in your face , now they 've polished up their act , they 've sacrificed the power punch of their old menace . |
| 6 | This is significant , given that many commentators in 1983 thought that the policies of the Conservative and Labour parties were further apart than at any time over the previous thirty years . |
| 7 | She should give his hello to any of the boys who were still around and in the meantime could think of the home they were going to build in South Africa . |
| 8 | This is another spot which seems to be enjoying a good run of birds of prey for common buzzard and hen harrier were also there and on Saturday a red kite was seen . |
| 9 | Assaulted by a tumbler of wine and the smell of much mixed nervous human activity , I was soon crawling about on several elbows , being splashed from high above by excess wine while my eyes , ears and mouth were up there and at the same level of height of depth as everyone else , adding to the massed attempt to obliterate the loud dancing music which obliterated the loud dancing which packed the conversations into pouring constipations . |
| 10 | Soon , however , we were midway down and into a steep , narrow , rocky section , where it was turn now or go straight into freefall . |
| 11 | To say that they were here only because of a hunch would not do at all . |
| 12 | In elderly men the incidence of pancreatitis discharges decreased , suggesting that the cause of pancreatitis was most probably because of alcohol or a non-gall stone disease . |
| 13 | In any event the time for sovereigns meeting was long past and in the particular case of Prussia Napoleon III was not being stalked by the King but by Bismarck , who had no intention of allowing his quarry to elude him . |
| 14 | But in the end it was all right because of Beuno . |
| 15 | The Burns Supper was less so than in previous years but still was an excellent evening arranged by Dr A. Watson . |
| 16 | When I commented on it , George said that that window was open always except in blizzards , eh ? |
| 17 | I planned to join her when I was sure he was not in or around the hotel . |
| 18 | This was not least because of the respect and affection in which , as I found , Eliot was so clearly held as both a writer and a man . |
| 19 | She was not there and after running frantically around the garden he eventually found her beside the old hanging tree at the bottom of the path . |
| 20 | It was not only because of its convenient position and its many sheltering solitudes that he had chosen to watch out the night here . |
| 21 | This was not really because of an absolute respect for truth but was something to do with their inhibited negative sense of style . |
| 22 | By now , though , the sun was directly overhead and on the roofs it was unbearably hot . |
| 23 | 'E was always up an' down the street . ’ |
| 24 | Armstrong was still there and in one piece , though I walked around him to check that all four wheels were in place before we got in . |
| 25 | When it did so , it was clearly only because of the enormous pressure of a mass lesbian and gay Stop The Clause campaign that involved soap-opera and Shakespearian actors . |
| 26 | My journey was both inside and outside that tradition , because I learned that the quest for an essence dissolves the dynamic differences which describe the working class itself ( aside from class differences which are one of the most apparent characteristics of England ) — poor and unskilled from skilled , men from women , young from old , waged from wageless , organised from unorganised , black from white . |
| 27 | But this was probably more because of interference than natural decay : ‘ The bones [ are ] firmly united and the flesh and skin dried up like tanned leather . |
| 28 | It was also partly because of a sense of loyalty to the United States as leader of the Western alliance . |
| 29 | The folding knife could have been used as a razor , if it was sharp enough or as a penknife for shaping reed pens . |
| 30 | The Conservatives ' advantage over Labour in the post-election survey is nearly double what it was in 1964 and treble what it was as recently as on Tuesday and Wednesday last week : 1964Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Now Conservatives ' best 45 45 43 44 45 52 Labour best 34 37 38 38 38 31 Con advantage+11 +8 +5 +6 +7+21 While the Tories were triumphing on the issues , they were also triumphing on the matter of personal leadership . |